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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.

Aaron Sorkin

I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.
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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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